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hello. this is bbc news with martine croxall. we'll be taking a look we'll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment — first the headlines at 10.30pm. emmanuel macron triumphs over his far—right adversary in the french presidential election. he's set to be the country's youngest head of state since napoleon. in a sombre television address he said he wanted to unite the nation. translation with total devotion, with total determination, i'm going to serve our country. i'm going serve france on your behalf. long live the republic and long live france. and more than one third of french voters chose the hard right vision for france presented by marine le pen, she promised to turn her attention to the forthcoming parliamentary elections. in the election here — a pledge from labour — they won't raise income tax for anyone earning less than 80 thousand pounds a year. the conservatives focus on mental health, promising to recruit another
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10,000 staff in england if they're re—elected. a two—year—old girl is in a serious condition in liverpool after she was bitten by dogs in cockburn street in the toxteth area. a man has been arrested. and in meet the author i will be speaking to the author david baldacci about his latest novel, fur fix. hello and welcome to our look at what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow, a lot of one particular story, tim stanley, columnist at the daily telegraph, joins me with benedicte paviot, uk correspondent at france 24. the financial times
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headlines emmanuel macron's win in the french presidential election saying his win is a phenomenal achievement. the metro calls him big mac after he took over 65% of the vote in the second round. the guardian says mr macron must now reunite it if fans after the far right marine le pen received over 11 million votes. the times receives that emmanuel macron received a landslide victory as fans elect its youngest leaders and is napoleon. the telegraph warns that the election of the europhile could have an effect on brexit negotiations with the european union. and the daily mail leads with an exclusive in which it says that loyalty with an insurer can cost families an extra £1000 a year. interesting that some papers don't even mention the french presidential election. they won't feature much in this review. maybe at past 11 we will look at broccoli on the front page of the daily express but we can't promise. emmanuel macron wins the presidency, yet the country remains divided. he
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was very much aware of that when he appeared on tv shortly after it became that he had won, benedicte. appeared on tv shortly after it became that he had won, benedictel yes, this 39—year—old who resigned from the government only last summer and set up a movement, it is still a movement, not a party, with no official subsidies from the french authorities, en marche, and he has astonishingly confounded all the predictions of the experts and tonight he is president elect of france. a certain emmanuel macron. he has reason to be solemn. the country is in a state of emergency still. there's a lot of major terrorist threats, as we know. french and policeman —— a french prison killed and another seriously injured on the champs—elysees, stag na nt injured on the champs—elysees, stagnant economy, huge unemployment, 10%, that was the very pledge that the then candidate francois hollande said he should bejudged on. and
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there is a lot to do. i thought it was interesting that mr macron talked about serving france and talked about serving france and talked about serving france and talked about the monumental task, la tache colossale that he has in front of him. it was a fractured campaign, we knew that since the first round, whistle that tonight. marine le pen has lost resoundingly, mr macron has won comfortably, easily, but the fa ct won comfortably, easily, but the fact is that what marine le pen has achieved is in itself extraordinary. so mr macron has a lot to do. he is an independent, he says he's not from the left of right and he has the small matter of parliamentary elections in june and the small matter of parliamentary elections injune and he needs to rally support behind him if he is to push through any or all of the reforms that he wants to do and unite france. there is no point in
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trying to compete on the french pronunciation front with this woman, tim! alaves i will speak in pidgin english! so you have this man who has won by 65% to 35%. yet he positioned himself as not being of the establishment. for a lot of people, of course he is. this is one ina long people, of course he is. this is one in a long line of remarkable elections that have changed politics across the world. brexit, trump and i'iow across the world. brexit, trump and now macron. the old parties seem to be unable to come up with solutions to france's myriad problems, a socialist was brought down by a corruption scandal, a communist did well in the first round and it came down to two people from outside mainstream politics, one independent and one rationalist. so the very fa ct and one rationalist. so the very fact that it was him this is her shows the scale of change —— one independent this is one rationalist.
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he has won that many people will say that he won because of who he was opposing. and i agree that although she lost the increase in the vote, national front since when her father run is substantial. and for all the controversy around her to do one third of the vote is remarkable. 0n top of that roughly one third of eligible voters chose not to vote. an extraordinary figure of 4.2 million people chose to spoil their ballot. so on the one hand, i'm saying that emmanuel macron yes, he has pulled off an extraordinary coup and reshaped french politics. 0n the other hand he is where he is because ofa other hand he is where he is because of a series of mishaps, accidents and forces of history well beyond his control. and the question is now, can he translate as he tried to do in his speech this evening this remarkable upsetting surprising victory into a coherent policy, a coherent approach towards
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government, and the question of a coherent political force ? government, and the question of a coherent political force? just one line, i'm sorry, martine, in the guardian, i haven't seen it in the other papers, the calamitous performance in the final tv debate. i'm not suggesting any parallel with anyone who doesn't want to take part in uk tv debates but french tv debates in presidential campaigns before have not been massive vote winners. marine le pen absolutely flanked her major test last wednesday. but will have helped some people who are floating voters and said, this woman cannot be our president. yet the polls after the debate suggested it had not changed things for her, for better or worse. but the polls immediately after the debate said that the person who had won the debate easily was mr macron and that he had the presidential qualities. the times says a landslide for macron, with pictures
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of his supporters celebrating outside the louvre, he has got five yea rs outside the louvre, he has got five years to outside the louvre, he has got five yea rs to prove outside the louvre, he has got five years to prove that he can make these changes that he's promising. and if not will she be back again? this is what many people are predicting. nigel farage, who is turning into our very own voice of the outside right in the uk, predicted that she would return in the next round of elections and that she would win. what she wants to do i'iow she would win. what she wants to do now is when a large number of seats in the parliamentary elections so that she has some kind of foothold to do that. there's also talk that you wants to change the name of the party. that's right. in her a cce pta nce party. that's right. in her acceptance speech, or defeat speech i should say, she wants to change the name of the party. this will be pa rt the name of the party. this will be part of her changing the brand and distancing herself. she could do it tomorrow or the day after. she's got tomorrow or the day after. she's got to move quickly, she wants to get in
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there and do well in the parliamentary elections. macron said this in his speech, he said he wanted to change things so that people who voted for her would feel they would never have to vote for an extremist again. that means he has to get the economy right, and security, address this question of frenchness, this existential threat to french identity which many seem to french identity which many seem to feel. those are very difficult problems and if he fails it is conceivable that her vote will go up. if nothing else, given the scale of the vote, given how comfortably she got into the second round, it looks as if her great achievement is to make the front national the opposition within france. that is her goal. how instructive will what happened in britain beat the ukip vote where they lost 143 of their wards —— how will it be to the ukip vote ? wards —— how will it be to the ukip vote? they don't have a single mp
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left, how instructive will that be for left, how instructive will that be foer left, how instructive will that be for mr macron on how to see off a party that is further to the right? he is very well read, he met theresa may back in february, by the way, she has warmly congratulated mr macron tonight and says that france is one of the uk's closest allies and says they look forward to working with the new president who will take office on may 14 on a wide range of shared priorities. what lessons ? range of shared priorities. what lessons? well i think that he knows that the task is huge. and i think his whole appeal to a lot of people has been to say, i don't believe that looking at the experience, having been in government for two yea rs, having been in government for two years, as a finance minister, having been also had two years the chief economic adviser of francois hollande, people forget that, he has seen hollande, people forget that, he has seen the inner workings of government and says, we must forget these totally left and right issues.
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and what is interesting and will be very instructive in the coming days is to watch the number of les republicains, french conservatives will continue to support emmanuel macron and who will be prepared to have their names put with him and say that they will support him in a government, it will be very instructive to see who he presents, who he appoints as prime minister, one who will be appointed immediately, man or woman, one who will be appointed immediately, man orwoman, i'm hearing a lot about 52—year—old mep woman tonight, whether it will be her or not, and that prime minister may not be his prime minister depending on what the results are in the parliamentary elections and to the parliamentary elections and to the minister decides —— of the people decides in june the minister decides —— of the people decides injune he must work with. cloud of a brexit, said the headlines, eu leaders hailing the victory, angela merkel delighted that she has this man to do business with. should she be? that's the
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interesting question. there are two takes on his win when it comes to brexit. 0n the one hand like most european leaders he has been very critical of brexit. he described it asa critical of brexit. he described it as a crime which is an extraordinary word to use. so there's a lot of worry that in a crude national interest since this was a bad outcome for britain because at least marine le pen what have been eurosceptic and would have been against the eu whereas this man very much stands for a unified europe. 0n the other hand what does he want to do. he wants to shift institutional power. and the focus of economic decision making away from germany, which dominates, and towards france. emmanuel macron is interested in a more integrated economic policy and crucially or deflationary one, which encourages germans to spend and consumers to buy stuff and to get the european economic working again.
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he is far more of a keynesian fan a conservative. so you could argue that he represents an attitude which modern eurosceptics would welcome. soi modern eurosceptics would welcome. so i don't know if it's such a good thing for angela merkel. we could seek the politics of europe shift slightly away from berlin and towards paris. i'm not sure i share that vision. i think he has indicated that he wants to work closely with angela merkel. in fact marine le pen, one of her main accusations in the tv debate said, either way it will be a woman who will rule, sunday night because she said it would either be hurt or angela merkel. the point is, that either her or angela merkel. mr macron knows that he needs to work closely with germany. it is a very different vision of france in the eu and for the eu and mr macron said it
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would be no walk in the park as far as the brexit negotiations were concerned and he has talked about also as the daily telegraph points out, defending the integrity of the eu single market and the jurisdiction of the european court ofjustice. i think we could have a rapid visit by president elect macron. remember that theresa may chose to meet him and just not to meet marine le pen. i want to quickly defend my argument... while you are doing that can be just show the financial times? thank you! you are doing that can be just show the financialtimes? thank you! we run extracts from the memoirs of the greek leader about the greek crisis and he revealed that the one person in europe he felt was friendly towards greece's interests and understood what was being done to it was unfairand bad understood what was being done to it was unfair and bad in the long—term,
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was unfair and bad in the long—term, was mr macron. he said he thought mr macron was squeezed out of taking pa rt macron was squeezed out of taking part in negotiations in the process because the germans saw that he disagreed with them on policy. 0ne way in which again he is bad for brexit is, what france really wants to do is make sure that britain doesn't do a race to the bottom in terms of regulation and tax after brexit. so i think fans will really emphasise that strongly. france is keen to attract the city and get a brain drain going from london to paris because it's been going the other way to such a long time. so in that sense is bad for brexit, probably. he says, britain, you want to be in control of your borders, we wa nt to to be in control of your borders, we want to do it for you in calais, haveit want to do it for you in calais, have it back in dover. that's why i'm surprised the french election hasn't made the front of the daily mail! there you are, said it. hello daily mail. maybe they will their minds. i'm sure that there

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